Earth Science

The following links allow access to data and image archives related to earth sciences.

Earthquakes/Volcanoes

  • World-wide Earthquake Locator

  • SIMS Hurricane Watch

  • Earthquake Information/United States Geological Survey (USGS)

  • Southern California Earthquake Center Data Center

  • Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page

  • Volcano World

    • Snowfall/Precipitation/Sea Ice

  • TRMM - Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Data Products

  • International Ice Patrol Iceberg Data 1960 - Present

  • Rand Corporation Global Monthly Snow Depth

  • Canadian Snowfall/Snow Depth, 1943-1982

  • Iceberg Data Buoys

  • National Meteorological Center/Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice 1973-1990

  • Sea Ice Melt Ponds

  • Great Lakes Ice Concentration Data Base

  • National Ocean Survey Water Level Gage Ice Reports

  • Radiation Transfer Through Ice

  • Great Lakes Ice Thickness Data Base, 1966 - 1979

  • U.S. Monthly Precipitation

  • Temperature-Precipitation-Drought Data

  • Seasonal Precipitation Anomalies

  • Monthly Precipitation Anomalies

  • Ice Core Data Sets

    • Climatology

  • Table of global-mean monthly, annual and seasonal dTs

  • Table of global-mean monthly, annual and seasonal land-ocean temperature index

  • Table of zonal-mean annual dTs

  • Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II

  • Table of optical depths at 0.55 micron

  • Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model

  • Seasonal Temperature Anomalies

  • Monthly Temperature Anomalies

  • Merged Land - Ocean Seasonal Temperature Anomalies

  • Merged Land - Ocean Monthly Temperature Anomalies

  • Seasonal Temperature Anomalies

  • Monthly Temperature Anomalies

  • Recent Global Data for Over 8000 Stations

  • World War II Era Summary of Day Dataset

  • United States Historical Climatology Network

  • Coastal Subset of the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set

  • First Order Summary of the Day

  • Global Surface Summary of Day

  • DMSP Browse Imagery for 95-96

  • Great Lakes Air Temperature/Degree Day Climatology, 1897-1983
  • Data From NASA Scatterometer (NASCAT)

  • Arctic Water Vapor Characteristics from Rawindsondes

    • Storms and Hurricanes

  • Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

  • Tropical Storms

  • Hurricane Fernanda

  • University of Colorado Weather Images

  • Tropical Storms Around the Globe

    • Marine Data

  • Interactive Marine Observations

  • Paleoceanographic Data Sets

  • River Reports from University of Kentucky

  • ElNiño Forecasts

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